Several national mock election efforts help young people learn about the electoral process. The results aren't scientific, nor do they predict how the real general election goes, but the elections are fun ways to engage young people.
We noted the results of one such effort yesterday:
The Mankato Free Press reports in Mock elections give students taste of voting:
After months of preparation — both in and out of the classroom — Dakota Meadows and Mankato East hosted mock elections on Thursday. Dakota Meadows’ election, coordinated through National Student/Parent Mock Election, was decidedly in favor of Obama, who garnered 347 votes to McCain’s 153. In the U.S. Senate race, Franken won by just eight votes while Tim Walz, in the U.S. House race, won in a landslide with 75 percent of the vote. Results from Mankato East’s mock election, through the Youth Leadership Initiative, weren’t announced until this morning.
While students could only vote in their own districts, participating teachers can view polling data for the entire state. A friend in the Sixth who had his own students participate in the Youth Leadership Initiative sent us the screen shot above of the tally so far for the First.
Fun stuff, but no reason for First District Democrats to slack off in GOTV efforts.We'll have a post up in a bit about today's GOTV highlights.
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